This Blog is dedicated to Jim

Who rightly points out I have not blogged in weeks, it’s not been from the lack of wanting to put something down, and I have just been a bit busy with work.

So Jim sits next to me at work in a completely unrelated field of mobility. And seeing how Jim does not work with BI systems, I thought it would be good to have a look at the features that SQL Server 2005 has for Mobile applications. While I am at I will put a blog about it.

First off there are no direct BI features for SQL Mobile applications. In fact there are none. Accept for the standard Reporting Services web services that can be customized.

So what are the Mobility Features?

First off a new DB that replaces SQL CE. SQL Management Studio is a single point for maintaining and developing SQL Mobile databases. There is full integration with Visual Studio. It’s a huge improvement over CE.

Product Overview Getting Started
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/ce/productinfo/SQLMobile.mspx

Development Centre for SQL Mobile
http://msdn.microsoft.com/SQL/2005/mobile/default.aspx

Well I know that’s a bit short and sweet, next post I will have a bit more of a BI favour.

\Myles